Rothschild fellows colloquium 2015

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ROTHSCHILD FELLOWS

COLLOQUIUM

Illustration: Sefer tsurot sidrei olam, Yah. Ms. Heb. 148, National Library of Israel

Table of Contents

Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

About Yad Hanadiv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

About Academic Excellence at Yad Hanadiv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

About the Rothschild Fellowship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Colloquium Participants 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Rothschild Fellows 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Roundtable Session Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

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Dear Fellows,

We are pleased to welcome you to the Second Rothschild Fellows Colloquium. The first Colloquium was held in 2013. The feedback we received reinforced our optimism about the potential benefits of fostering a community of young scholars that traverses disciplinary and institutional lines.

Yad Hanadiv’s activity in academia stems from a conviction that supporting and nurturing international-calibre research in Israel, in particular through investments in young scholars and fields of distinction, plays an important role in this country’s future. The Rothschild Fellows selection committees are invariably impressed by the number of eminently qualified candidates vying for the awards. The ability to sustain top quality research in Israel depends first and foremost on the commitment of scholars such as your-selves.

We encourage you to play an active role in sustaining this community and hope to continue to find ways of working together to advance the quality and reach of scientific inquiry in Israel’s universities.

Asher Ragen Programme Director Academic Excellence

Ariel Weiss Chief Executive Yad Hanadiv

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Dear Rothschild Fellows and Colleagues,

I am honored to welcome you to the 2nd Rothschild Fellows Colloquium at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS). In this colloquium, we are hosting previous and current Rothschild Fellows who represent all universities in Israel. Most importantly, the Rothschild Fellows here today represent academic diversity in terms of gender and age, as well as in the research and scholarship they pursue in mathematics, history, brain science, literature, art, ecology and everything in between. Looking back at the list of Rothschild Fellows from the past, I see many of the leaders, not only of Israeli academia, but also Israeli leadership in general. Therefore, I feel that receiving this fellowship is not only a privilege, but a tremendous responsibility. As Director of the IIAS, I also feel this sense of responsibility. I hope the IIAS will serve as a partner who can help you realize your vision.

With my very best wishes and warmest regards,

Michal Linial Director, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies

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ABOUT YAD HANADIV

Yad Hanadiv is dedicated to creating resources for advancing Israel as a healthy, vibrant, democratic society, committed to Jewish values and equal opportunity for the benefit of all its inhabitants. The Foundation acts in Israel on behalf of Rothschild family trusts that carry forward a 130-year tradition of philanthropy in Israel.

Construction of Israel’s Knesset (1966) and Supreme Court (1992) build-ings, the establishment of Educational Television (1966), the Centre for Educational Technology (1974), the Open University of Israel (2004), the Ramat Hanadiv Memorial Gardens and Nature Park and current efforts to renew the National Library of Israel, are among Yad Hanadiv’s best known projects. But it should be noted that Yad Hanadiv is reticent about advertis-ing its activities.

The Foundation’s core activity is organised in four programme areas: Academic Excellence, Education, Environment and Arab Community.

ABOUT ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

The Academic Excellence Programme encompasses Yad Hanadiv’s long-standing efforts in support of academic life in Israel – including the Rothschild Prizes and Fellowships and the Michael Bruno Memorial Awards, funding for the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies and more recent efforts on behalf of the Humanities and of the Life Sciences in Israel. Our newest initiative is looking to advance excellence among Arab students in Science and Technology.

In 2012 Yad Hanadiv inaugurated a framework to support the ability of local Life Sciences researchers to pursue cutting-edge work, by helping to nar-row the gap in resources available to them as compared to Life Scientists


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abroad. Key activities include a partnership with the Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine (INCPM) located at the Weizmann Institute; partnering with the Israel Science Foundation to provide researchers from across Israel with research funding to take advantage of national research facilities; and support for the Edmond Safra Bioinformatics programme at Tel Aviv University.

Support of the Humanities has long been a cornerstone of Yad Hanadiv’s philanthropy. Maintaining a vibrant and diverse community of researchers working across multiple fields is of critical importance not only to Israeli academia but to Israeli society. As in other areas, promoting a national perspective of needs and inter-university collaborations is fundamental to our approach. Funding is provided through two key programmes: The Humanities Fund, established in 2008 (in partnership with the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education), and the more recently launched Rothschild Faculty Planning Initiative in the Humanities which fosters a strategic approach to faculty recruitment on the part of university leaders.

The recently launched Arab Excellence strategy (developed in partnership with Yad Hanadiv’s Arab Community programme) seeks to increase the number and percentage of Arab university graduates who obtain faculty positions in the Sciences or high-level industry positions in Science and Technology. First steps are the launching of a new Science Education pro-gramme for outstanding students from leading high schools in the North, operated by the Davidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute; and partnering with the Council for Higher Education to support Maof Fellowships for Arab faculty.

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ABOUT THE ROTHSCHILD FELLOWSHIP

The Rothschild Fellowship programme was established to help young scholars of outstanding academic merit and potential to advance in their respective fields. The first group of Fellows was selected for the 1979-80 academic year. Nine fellowships were awarded in that first round.

In 1997 the programme was divided into two categories, Rothschild Fellowships in the Natural, Exact and Life Sciences and Engineering and Rothschild Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Up to twelve Rothschild Fellowships are awarded each year in Sciences and Engineering and up to nine in Humanities and Social Sciences.

The first Selection Committee was chaired by Sir Isaiah Berlin. Subsequent Committee Chairs have included Aryeh Dvoretzky (former head of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities), Hillel Furstenberg, David Kazhdan and David Shulman. The current Chairman of the Natural, Exact and Life Sciences and Engineering Committee is Professor Marcus Feldman (Stanford University); Professor Peter Jelavich (Johns Hopkins University) chairs the Committee for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Almost 560 Fellowships have been awarded to date. The majority of Fellows have pursued their academic careers in Israel, with many becoming leading figures in their fields. Numerous Fellows can be found in positions of aca-demic leadership in Israel, including university presidents, vice presidents and rectors. (A complete list of past Fellows may be found on page 38.)

In 2012 we initiated a tradition of Rothschild Fellows Colloquia. The Colloquium takes place every three years and brings together the most recent three cohorts of Rothschild Fellows, many of whom are still in the midst of their postdoctoral studies. It is an opportunity for Fellows to meet colleagues and present their work to committee members and senior aca-demics in Israel. The 2015 Colloquium includes Fellows from 2011–2013.

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Wednesday, 29 April

9:00-9:45 Coffee and Registration

9:45-10:00 Welcome

Professor Michal Linial Director, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS)

Professor Marc Feldman Chair, Natural, Exact and Life Science and Engineering Committee

Professor Peter Jelavich Chair, Humanities and Social Sciences Committee

10:00-10:30 ‘Speed-dating’ with Fellows and Committee Members

10:30-10:45 Introduction to the IIAS: Professor Michal Linial

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Panel with Professor Benny Geiger, Chair, Academic Board, Israel Science Foundation and Professor Hagit Messer-Yaron, Vice Chair, Council for Higher Education

Moderator: Professor Michal Linial

12:15-13:30 Plenary Session – Part One Presentations by Rothschild Fellows

PROGRAMME

Rothschild Fellows Colloquium 29–30 April 2015

The Israel Institute for Advanced StudiesGivat Ram Campus, Jerusalem


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Yaara Yeshurun (Neurobiology) The Narratives We Live by: Exploring Brain Regions Involved in Narrative Interpretation

Svetlana Natkovich (Hebrew Literature)The Portrait of Maskil as a Criminal: The Figure of the Criminal in the Literature of Russian-Jewish Authors, 1862–1884

Uri Roll (Biology)Linking Nature and Human Happiness across Scales

Talya Sadeh (Psychology)How We Forget May Depend on How We Remember

Katy Margulies-Goshen (Chemistry)Drug Nanoparticles for Inducing Therapeutic Angiogenesis

Reshef Meir (Computer Sciences)Uncertainty, Strategy, and Voting

13:45-15:00 Lunch: Belgium House (Beit Belgia) with 2000 to 2010 Rothschild Fellows

15:30-16:45 Plenary Session – Part Two Presentations by Rothschild Fellows

Omri Tal (Philosophy) A Framework for Deriving Multilocus Information Measures

Ayala Arad (Economics)Colonel Blotto’s Top Secret Files: A Platform for Studying Strategic Thinking

Benyamin Rosental (Immunology)Characterization of Botryllus Schlosseri Hematopoietic System

Danny Neftin (Mathematics)Group Theory in Arithmetic

Adi Sheinfeld (Electrical Engineering)Combining Optics and Ultrasound for Cellular Imaging

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Itamar Harel (Developmental Biology)Rapid Exploration of Aging and Disease-related Genes in a Naturally Short Lived Vertebrate

17:00-18:00 Roundtables: Building an Academic Career in Israel, with leading mid-career scholars

Life Sciences: Professor Yuval Dor, Dr Erez Levanon

Humanities: Professor Michal Biran, Professor Vered Noam

Social Sciences: Professor Leon Deouell, Professor Michael Karayanni

Exact Sciences: Professor Uri Banin, Professor Nir Friedman

Free time

19:30-21:30 Cocktails and Dinner, Modern, The Israel Museum Restaurant

Joined by past Rothschild Prize recipients and newly-selected 2015 Rothschild Fellows

Speaker: Professor Menahem Ben-Sasson President of The Hebrew University and 1983 Rothschild Fellow

Thursday, 30 April

8:30-9:00 Gathering and Coffee

9:00-10:00 Presentation: Professor Amnon Shashua Professor of Computer Science, The Hebrew University and Co-founder, CTO and Chairman of Mobileye and OrCam

Moderator: Professor Michal Linial

10:15-11:45 Visit to the National Library

12:00-13:00 Wrap-Up and Feedback at the IIAS

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Rothschild Fellows 2015

C O L L O Q U I U M P A R T I C I P A N T S 2 0 1 5

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Colloquium Participants 2015

Danny Ben-Zvi 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: Harvard University

PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science, 2011

Main areas of research: Physiology and metabolism: response to bariatric surgery; regulation of pancreatic endocrine mass

[email protected]

Ori Bar-Nur 2012/2013


PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012

Main areas of research: Reprogramming somatic cells to a pluripotent state

[email protected] [email protected]

Ayala Arad 2011/2012

Current Affiliation: Tel Aviv University

Institution abroad: University of California, Berkeley

PhD: Tel Aviv University, 2011

Main areas of research: Behavioural and experimental economics

[email protected]

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Gal Binyamini 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: University of Toronto


Main areas of research: The geometry of differential equations and applications to dynamics and number theory

[email protected]

Oded Berger-Tal 2013/2014

Current Affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles & Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global

PhD: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2013

Main areas of research: Conservation behaviour – using behavioural ecology principles to improve conservation and management

[email protected]

David (Dudu) Burstein 2013/2014

Current Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley


Main areas of research: Genomics of microbial communities in natural environments

[email protected]

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Ronit Bustin-Drory 2013/2014

Current Affiliation: Princeton University

PhD: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 2013

Main areas of research: Information theory, estimation theory and their relationship, interference channels, physical layer security, fading channels

[email protected]

Guy Cohen 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: Columbia University


Main areas of research: Theory of strongly correlated many-body quantum systems out of equilibrium

[email protected]

Emanuele Dalla Torre 2011/2012

Current Affiliation: Bar-Ilan University

Institution abroad: Harvard University


Main areas of research: Non-equilibrium many-body physics: ultracold atoms, quantum optics, solid state

[email protected]

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Michael Ebstein 2011/2012

Current Affiliation: Martin Buber Fellow at The Hebrew University

Institution abroad: Freie Universität Berlin


Main areas of research: Medieval Islamic mysticism

[email protected]

Ofer Firstenberg 2011/2012

Current Affiliation: Weizmann Institute of Science

Institution abroad: Harvard University


Main areas of research: Extreme quantum limit of nonlinear optics, where individual photons interact strongly with one another and behave like matter particles

[email protected]

Itamar Harel 2013/2014

Current Affiliation: The Brunet Lab, Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine


Main areas of research: A platform for rapid exploration of aging and diseases in a naturally short-lived vertebrate – the African turquoise killifish

[email protected]

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Ido Kaminer 2013/2014

Current Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Main areas of research: The intersection of optics, electromagnetism, and quantum mechanics; engineering the quantum wave function of electrons and their interaction with nanophotonic structures to create novel radiation sources

[email protected]

Michal Isaacson 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AgeLab


Main areas of research: The ways in which human behaviour both consume and create the environments in which we live

[email protected]

Salomon Israel 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Institution abroad: Duke University


Main areas of research: Psychology, behavioural genetics, behavioural economics

[email protected]

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Leon Jacobowitz-Efron 2013/2014

Current Affiliation: Achva College

Institution abroad: Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti


Main areas of research: Medieval and early modern history; intellectual history; Dante studies; medieval sexuality; the art of memory

[email protected]

Ori Katz 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: Institut Lanvgevin, ESPCI ParisTech, Paris, France and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France


Main areas of research: Physics (optics and acoustics): imaging and wave control in complex media

[email protected]

Rabei Khamisy 2003/2014

Current Affiliation: Cardiff University (SHARE)

PhD: University of Haifa, 2012

Main areas of research: History and archaeology of the Crusader period: Acre and Tyre regions

[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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Shachar Klaiman 2011/2012

Current Affiliation: Theoretical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg


Main areas of research: Molecular anions – binding mechanisms and reactions, many-body dynamics, and methods for estimating the lifetime of metastable species

shachar.klaiman@ pci.uni-heidelberg.de

Ofir Levy 2011/2012

Current Affiliation: Arizona State University


Main areas of research: Biophysical models, biological responses to climate change

[email protected]

Uri Livneh 2013/2014

Current Affiliation: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY


Main areas of research: System neuroscience

[email protected]

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Katy Margulies-Goshen 2013/2014

Current Affiliation: Stanford University


Main areas of research: Analytical chemistry, nanotechnology, pharmaceutics

[email protected]

Ahmad Masarwa 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley


Main areas of research: Chemical synthesis of bioactive scaffolds by applying C-C and C-H bond activation / cleavage and cascade reaction processes

[email protected] [email protected]

Reshef Meir 2013/2014



Main areas of research: Computational game theory, mechanism design, artificial intelligence, behavioural game theory

[email protected]

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Danny Neftin 2011/12

Current Affiliation: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor


Main areas of research: Algebra, number theory

[email protected]

Svetlana Natkovich 2013/2014

Current Affiliation: Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig University


Main areas of research: Literature of the Jewish Enlightenment; Eastern European Jewish self-fashioning; cultural history of Zionism

[email protected]

Khitam Muhsen 2011/2012

Current Affiliation: School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Institution abroad: University of Maryland


Main areas of research: Epidemiology of infectious diseases; helicobacter pylori infection and its impact on health and disease

[email protected]

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Ram Rivlin 2011/2012

Current Affiliation: Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Institution abroad: NYU


Main areas of research: Family law, law and philosophy, law and neuroscience

[email protected]

Liav Orgad 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: Radzyner Law School, IDC Herzliya; Marie Curie Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin

Institution abroad: NYU and Freie Universität Berlin


Main areas of research: Comparative constitutional law, comparative immigration law, citizenship theory, multiculturalism, law and religion

[email protected]

Uri Roll 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: University of Oxford


Main areas of research: Conservation biology aiming to incorporate knowledge and expertise from biology, statistics, mathematics and social-sciences towards the better protection of the natural environment

[email protected]

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Talya Sadeh 2013/2014

Current Affiliation: Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre / University of Toronto


Main areas of research: The cognitive neuroscience of memory: principles of memory organisation and the causes of forgetting

[email protected]

Jonathan Rubin 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: The Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University

Institution abroad: The Warburg Institute, London


Main areas of research: Cultural and intellectual history of the Latin East; the study of intercultural contacts and exchanges in the Latin East

[email protected]

Benyamin Rosental 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: Stem Cell Institute, School of Medicine, Stanford University

PhD: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 2013

Main areas of research: Study of the immune system of histocompatibility in a marine protochordate model for mammalian stem cell transplantation and pregnancy immunology

[email protected]

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Yoav Sagi 2011/2012

Current Affiliation: Physics Department, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Institution abroad: University of Colorado at Boulder


Main areas of research: Experimental study of many-body physics in a strongly interacting ultracold Fermi gas

[email protected]

Adi Sheinfeld 2013/2014

Current Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University


Main areas of research: Combining optics and ultrasound for cell imaging, with a focus on molecular and mechanical characterization of cancer cells

[email protected]

Efrat Sheffer 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Institution abroad: Princeton


Main areas of research: Ecology

[email protected]

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Ella Striem-Amit 2013/2014



Main areas of research: Brain representation of abstract and non-embodied concepts (concepts not sensorily perceptible), as well as the effects of sensory-motor deprivation on brain organisation

[email protected]

Adi Stern 2011/2012

Current Affiliation: Tel Aviv University

Institution abroad: University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Francisco


Main areas of research: Evolution and genomics of viruses

[email protected]

Orr Spiegel 2013/2014

Current Affiliation: University of California, Davis


Main areas of research: Movement ecology and animal behaviour

[email protected]

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Omri Tal 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig


Main areas of research: Information theoretical approach to the concept of population structure and the genotype-phenotype relation

[email protected]

Judith Weiss 2013/2014

Current Affiliation: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Institution abroad: Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes


Main areas of research: Medieval Kabbalah; Renaissance Christian Kabbalah; medieval and early-modern interreligious Jewish-Christian discourse

[email protected]

Omri Weisman 2013/2014

Current Affiliation: Yale University School of Medicine

PhD: Bar-Ilan University, 2013

Main areas of research: Chemoreception in autism: neural pathways to translation

[email protected]

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Reuven Yeshurun 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: University of Haifa

Institution abroad: Smithsonian Institution

PhD: University of Haifa, 2012

Main areas of research: Archaeology of the Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic periods in the Middle East; zooarchaeology and taphonomy

[email protected]

Yaara Yeshurun 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: Princeton University


Main areas of research: Neural correlates of human memory and theory of mind

[email protected]

Moran Yassour 2012/2013

Current Affiliation: The Broad Institute; Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School


Main areas of research: The human gut microbiome in health and disease – from the establishment of the microbial community in infants to its effect on inflammatory bowel disease patients

[email protected]

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R O T H S C H I L D F E L L O W S 2 0 1 5 – 2 0 1 6

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Anat Arzi

PhD: Weizmann Institute of Science

Main Field of Study: Neurobiology

Title of PhD: Olfactory Processing, Learning and Memory of Consciously Unperceived Odours

University Abroad: University of Cambridge

[email protected]

Ranen Aviner

PhD: Tel Aviv University

Main Field of Study: Cell biology

Title of PhD: Deciphering the Mitotic Translatome

University Abroad: Stanford University

[email protected]

Vadim Axelrod


Main Field of Study: Cognitive neuroscience

Title of PhD: The Representation of Faces in the Occipital-temporal Cortex

University Abroad: To be decided

[email protected]

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Yehonadav Bekenstein

PhD: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Main Field of Study: NanoScience (physics/chemistry)

Title of PhD: Electrical Effects of Metallic Structuring and Doping in Cu2S Colloidal Quantum Dots

University Abroad: University of California, Berkeley

[email protected]

Shahar Barbash


Main Field of Study: Molecular neuroscience

Title of PhD: RNA Metabolism and Regulation in Evolution and Disease States of the Human Brain

University Abroad: Rockefeller University, NY

[email protected]

Avishai Bar Asher


Main Field of Study: Jewish thought and philosophy

Title of PhD: Concepts and Imageries of Paradise in 13th Century Jewish Esotericism

University Abroad: Princeton University

[email protected]

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Boris Desiatov


Main Field of Study: Applied physics

Title of PhD: Silicon Platform for On-chip Light Confinement, Nanofocusing and Sensing Applications


[email protected]

Amit Daniely


Main Field of Study: Computer science

Title of PhD: On the Theoretical Foundation of Machine Learning

University Abroad: University of California, Berkeley and Google

[email protected]

Assaf Breska


Main field of study: Psychology (cognitive neuroscience)

Title of PhD: Automatic and Controlled Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Stimulus-driven and Memory-based Temporal Predictions

University abroad: University of California, Berkeley

[email protected]

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Ofer Fridman


Main Field of Study: System biology (biophysics)

Title of PhD: Optimization of Lag Time Underlies Antibiotic Tolerance in Evolved Bacterial Populations

University Abroad: to be decided

[email protected]

Julie Fadlon


Main Field of Study: Psycholinguistics

Title of PhD: The Psycholinguistics of Verbal Diathesis: The Transitive-Unaccusative Alternation

University Abroad: Northwestern University

[email protected]

Raanan Eichler


Main Field of Study: Bible

Title of PhD: The Ark and the Cherubim

University abroad: Harvard University

[email protected]

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Livnat Jerby-Arnon


Main Field of Study: Computational systems biology, bioinformatics

Title of PhD: Identifying Cancer-specific Vulnerabilities Based on Genome-scale Genetic and Metabolic Networks

University Abroad: The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

[email protected]

Or Hen


Main Field of Study: Physics

Title of PhD: High-Momentum Nucleons in Nuclei

University Abroad: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

[email protected]

Erez Freud

PhD: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Main Field of Study: Cognitive neuroscience

Title of PhD: The Neural and Cognitive Mechanisms that Mediate Object 3D Perception

University Abroad: Carnegie Mellon University; University of Western Ontario

[email protected]

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Naama Mayseless

PhD: University of Haifa

Main Field of Study: Social and cognitive neuroscience

Title of PhD: The Neural Basis of Creativity and Originality: The Integrated Balanced Dual Process Model of Creativity


[email protected]

Michal Levo


Main Field of Study: Computational biology

Title of PhD: Behind the Scene of Transcriptional Control – How is Regulation Implemented at the Level of DNA Binding?

University Abroad: to be decided

[email protected]

Anatoly Khina


Main Field of Study: Electrical engineering

Title of PhD: New Matrix Decompositions for Gaussian Communication Networks

University Abroad: California Institute of Technology

[email protected]

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Yotam Soreq


Main Field of Study: Particle physics

Title of PhD: Higgs and Flavor at the LHC Era: From Precision Tests to New Physics?


[email protected]

Sivan Refaely-Abramson


Main Field of Study: Computational materials science

Title of PhD: A Generalization of the Optimally-tuned Range-separated Hybrid Scheme to the Solid-state

University Abroad: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; University of California, Berkeley

[email protected]

Merav Parter


Main Field of Study: Computer science and applied mathematics

Title of PhD: The Topology of Wireless Communication and Applications


[email protected]

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Avishay Tal


Main Field of Study: Computer science

Title of PhD: Analysis of Boolean Functions in Theoretical Computer Science

University Abroad: Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton

[email protected]

Amit Tuby


Main Field of Study: Geography

Title of PhD: Short-term and Long-term Responses and Adaptation to Climate Extremes


[email protected]

Yaara Zisman-Ilani

PhD: University of Haifa

Main Field of Study: Psychology; health communication; applied health research

Title of PhD: Developing, Implementing and Measuring the Impact of Shared Decision-Making intervention in Psychiatric Care

University Abroad: Dartmouth

[email protected]

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Roundtable Session Leaders

Life Sciences

Professor Yuval Dor is Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research at the Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University. He received his PhD from The Hebrew University in 2002 and carried out postdoctoral work at Harvard University. He received the Michael Bruno Memorial Award in 2012.

Dr Erez Levanon is a Senior Lecturer in the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University. He received his PhD from Tel Aviv University and did postdoctoral research at the Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School. He received a Rothschild Fellowship in 2006.

Humanities

Professor Michal Biran is the Max and Sophie Mydans Foundation Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from The Hebrew University. She received a Rothschild Fellowship in 1995 and a Michael Bruno Memorial Award in 2005

Professor Vered Noam is Professor of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University, where she is the head of the Programme of Jewish Philosophy, Talmud and Kabbalah in the Department of Hebrew Culture Studies. She received her PhD from The Hebrew University in 1997. She received the Michael Bruno Memorial Award in 2010.

Social Sciences

Professor Leon Deouell is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and heads the Human Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at The Hebrew University. He received his MD in 1992 from the Sackler School of Medicine at the Tel Aviv University, and his PhD in 2001 at the Department of Psychology at The Hebrew University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Rothschild Fellowship in 2000.


Professor Michael Karayanni holds the Silver Chair in Civil Procedure at the Law

Faculty of The Hebrew University and is the Director of the Sacher Institute for

Legislative Research and Comparative Law. He received an LLD from The Hebrew

University in 2000 and a Doctor of Judicial Science at the University from Pennsylvania

Law School in 2003. He received a Rothschild Fellowship in 2002 and a Michael Bruno

Memorial Award in 2007.

Exact Sciences

Professor Uri Banin is a Professor at the Institute of Chemistry of The Hebrew

University. He received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from The Hebrew University

in 1994. He received a Rothschild Fellowship in 1994 and carried out postdoctoral

work at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Michael Bruno Memorial

Award in 2007.

Professor Nir Friedman is a Professor at the Institute of Life Sciences and the School

of Computer Sciences of The Hebrew University. He completed his PhD in Computer

Sciences at Stanford and did postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley

in the field of Computational Biology. He received a Michael Bruno Memorial Award

in 2010.

Session LecturerProfessor Amnon Shashua holds the Sachs Chair in Computer Science at The

Hebrew University. He headed the School of Engineering and Computer Science at

The Hebrew University from 2003 to 2005. He received his PhD in Computational

Neuroscience, working at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology. His research interests are in Computer Vision and Machine

Learning. He is the founder of CogniTens Ltd, co-founder of MobilEye Vision

Technologies and co-founder of OrCam.

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Rothschild Fellows 1979–2014

1979

Chaim Benjamini Environmental Sciences

Richard Flantz Language & Literature

Ehud Heyman Electrical Engineering

Yonatan (Yoni) Malachi Electrical Engineering

Amihai (Ami) Mazar Archaeology

Ely Merzbach Mathematics

Arye Nehorai Electrical Engineering

Mordechai Perl Mechanical Engineering

Aviezer Ravitzky Jewish Philosophy

Ariel Rubinstein Economics

1980

Aaron Ben-Zeev Philosophy

Ofer Binah Medicine

Alfred Bruckstein Computer Sciences

Itzhak Glass Neuroscience

Avishai Henik Psychology

Yael Ilan Industrial Engineering

Arye Juhasz Mathematics

Joseph Kostiner Middle Eastern History

Tsevi Mazeh Astronomy

Ilana Nathan Medicine

Yehuda Shiran Mechanical Engineering

Eitan Tadmor Mathematics

Eilon Vaadia Biomedical Engineering

1981

Joseph Almog Logic

Lili Anglister Biochemistry

Cila Blatt Biology

Zvi Elgat Engineering

Deborah Gera Classical Studies

Avi Hasner Medicine

Yael Ilan Industrial Engineering

Arnon Rolnick Psychology

Miri Rubin-Ungar History

Amnon Schwartz Agriculture

Itzhak Shperling Electrical Engineering

Lester Shulman Biology

Mina Teicher Mathematics

Moshe Tur Electrical Engineering

Marius Ungarish Computer Sciences

Leah Yogev Biology

1982

Meir Bar-Asher Language & Literature

Itamar Barnea Psychology

David Bensimon Physics

Yitzhak (Tsahi) Birk Electrical Engineering

Sammy Boussiba Biology

Moshe Deutsch Physics

Yoram Erder History

Joshua Idar Education

Boaz Lazar Oceanography


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L. Maisels-Navon Sociology & Anthropology

Abraham Nowersztern Language & Literature

Jacob Pe’er Medicine

Vladimir Privman Physics

Zvi Safra Economics

Shaul Stampfer History

Baruch Vainas Chemistry

1983

Amihood Amir Computer Sciences

Doron Aurbach Chemistry

Reuven Avi-Yonah History

Menachem Ben-Sasson History

Y. Cohen Philosophy

Yigal Elad Plant Sciences

Aharon (Ronnie) Friedman Immunology

Reuven Gepstein Medicine

Dan Haran Mathematics

Jeffrey Macy Political Science

Ronit Nativ Hydrology

Roman Pyrzak Agriculture

Baruch Rinkevich Zoology

Moshe Sidi Electrical Engineering

Amri Wandel Physics

Joseph Zeira Economics

1984

Yuti Charnajovsky Biology

David Chitayat Medicine

Zohar Eitan Musicology

Yariv Ephraim Electrical Engineering

Haim Gamliel Medicine

Yoram Kapulnik Agriculture

Aviad Kleinberg History

Michael Lecker History

Emil Levy Chemistry

Naphtali Rishe Computer Sciences

Luis Roniger Sociology

Adam Schneeweiss Medicine

Moshe Szyf Biochemistry

Ram Yahalom Physics

Raz Yirmiya Psychobiology

Constantin Zuckerman History

1985

Reuven Amitai History

E. Avraham Immunology

Yair Be’ery Electrical Engineering

Jehoshua Bruck Electrical Engineering

Miriam Constantini-Souroujon Biochemistry

Michal Ephratt Language & Literature

Dan Eshel Chemistry

Marc Hirshman Jewish Philosophy and Thought

Joseph Holoshitz Medicine

42


Ofer Lahav Physics Dan Levy Physics Israel Nur Agriculture Haim Omer Psychology David Satran Jewish Philosophy and Thought Yizhar Tal Law Anthony J. Weiss Electrical Engineering Arieh Wishkovsky Immunology

1986Aharon Agranat Physics Gadi Algazi History Yehuda Assaraf Microbiology Arnon Avron Computer Sciences Michal Gadot Agriculture Tali Haran Chemistry Moshe Idan Aeronautical Engineering Miriam Leurer Physics Joseph Mali History Shulamit Manulis Plant Sciences

Yoram Reich Civil Engineering Zvi Ruder Chemical Engineering Mordechai Shohat Medicine Michael Silber History

1987Shmuel Ben Zvi Economics Yonatan Elkind Agriculture Raisa Epstein Mathematics Alexander Feinstein Physics Yizhar Hirschfeld Archaeology Oscar Levin Desert Research Meir Lewkowicz Physics Ofer Lider Biology Yitzhak Nakash History Amos Nevo Mathematics Fania Oz History Yossef Raviv Biology Baruch Rosenstein Physics Dror Wahrman History

Haim Werner Biology Anat Zadok Biology

1988Dekel Amir-Shapira Botany Boaz Avron Biology Hector Budman Mechanical Engineering Joseph Buxbaum Biology Itzchak Edrei Physics Ariel Halperin Economics Marwan Hassan Physical Geography Amnon Horovitz Biochemistry Israel Knohl Bible Ehud Landau Chemistry Meir Orenstein Chemistry Jaron Rabinovici Medicine Eli Salzberger Law Gabriel Schreiber Medicine Adam Seligman Sociology David Yogev Biology

43


1989Chaya Brodie Neurobiology

Dale Frank Biochemistry

Eitan Galun Medicine

Zohar Goshen Law

Eli Jerby Physics

Anna Kissin Language & Literature

Daphne Koller Computer Sciences

Nadine Mandel Language & Literature

Ronen Peretz Mathematics

Rivka Riven-Kreitman Biochemistry

Levi Schachter Electrical Engineering

Aner Shalev Mathematics

Dov Shiffman Biology

Tamar Tennenbaum Pharmacology

Shimon Weiss Electrical Engineering

Elnathan Weissert History

1990Reuven Amitai-Preiss History

Roza Azhari Biomedical Engineering Ronen Basri Computer Sciences Raanan Bavli Chemistry Yeshayahu Eisenberg Physics David Engelberg Biochemistry Lia Ettinger-Peach Biology Graham Feingold Physics Rafael Perl-Treves Biology Itai Shafrir Mathematics Nir Shavit Computer Sciences Ur Shlonsky Language & Literature Haim Weissman Physics Eran Yashiv Economics Eyal Zamir Law Ada Zohar Psychology

1991Radel Ben-Av Physics David Golomb Physics Eitan Gross Physics

Shay Gueron Mathematics Abdullah Haj-Yehia Pharmacology Moshe Kol Chemistry Avia Rosenhouse-Dantsker Chemistry Zlil Sela Mathematics Gad Shaulsky Biology Efrat Shimshoni Physics Haim Taitelbaum PhysicsOfra Tirosh-Becker Language & Literature Alexander Vardy Electrical Engineering Dror Zeevi History Ilan Zisser Mathematics

1992Shlomo Berger Materials Engineering Ilan Bloom Electrical Engineering Meir Buzaglo Philosophy Nir Davidson Physics Avital Deutsch Psychology Eyal Doron Physics

44


Dan Halperin Computer Sciences

Amos Lapidoth Electrical Engineering

Menashe Levy Pharmacology

Anya Mali Comparative Religion

Victor Mor-Avi Physics

Michael Polyak Mathematics

Yuval Rabani Mathematics

Yoram Reiter Immunology

Snait Tamir Biochemistry

Daphna Vulcan Language & Literature

1993

Shimshon Bar-Ad Physics

Joshua Feinberg Physics

Ruth Feldman Psychology

Aviv Frommer Physics

Ron Karidi Mathematics

Lior Klein Physics

Ariel Orda Electrical Engineering

Uri Peskin Chemistry

Andrei Reznikov Mathematics

Nava Rubin Biology

Eytan Ruppin Computer Sciences

Guillermo Sapiro Electrical Engineering

Idit Shachar Biochemistry

Orit Shaul Plant Genetics

Nathan Wasserman History

Noam Ziv Biology

1994

Uri Banin Chemistry

Hanoch Ben-Yami Philosophy

Judith Frommer Electrical Engineering

Dorit Hanein Biology

Oded Heilbronner History

Wayne D. Kaplan Materials Engineering

Menahem Kister Talmud

Assaf Likhovski Law

Ofer Mokady Zoology

Benny Reznik Physics

Dan Sadot Electrical Engineering

Zvi Wiener Mathematics

Alexander Yakobson History

Gil Yosipovitch Medicine

Reuven Zeitak Physics

1995

Oded Agam Physics

Naama Barkai Physics

Yair Bartal Computer Sciences

Michal Ben-Nun Chemistry

Michal Biran Inner Asian History

Ofer Blum Chemistry

Ran Canetti Mathematics

Larisa Gheber Biochemistry

Chen Lichtenstein Law

Erez Petrank Computer Sciences

45


Moshe Portnoy Chemistry

Ziv Reich Chemistry

Lilach Shalev-Mevorach Psychology

Nadav Shnerb Physics

Nir Tessler Electrical Engineering

Aryeh Zaban Chemistry

1996

Merav Ahissar Biology

Uri Alon Physics

Gill Barequet Computer Sciences

Shoshana Eitan Biology

Eyal Goren Mathematics

Yaron Hadari Biology

Hanni Inbar Electrical Engineering

Alex Kamenev Physics

Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir Law

Mordechai Margalit Electrical Engineering

Gil Markovich Chemistry

Yuri Pines Asian Studies

Eran Rabani Chemistry

Kobi Rosenblum Biology

Bilha Segev Physics

Elnathan Weissert Assyriology

1997

Rami Atar Electrical Engineering

Roy Bar-Ziv Physics

Joseph Berkovitz Philosophy

Avraham Faust Archaeology

Shlomo Gelaki Mathematics

Isaac Hollander Islamic Studies

Eugene Kanzieper Physics

Michael Keidar Physics

Noga Kronfeld Zoology

Efrat Lev-Lehman Biochemistry

Daniel Lidar Physics

Yuval Oreg Physics

Ronit Ricci Indonesian Studies

Yehuda Sharf Physics

Miriam Shefer History

Orly Shenker Philosophy

Amnon Ta-Shma Computer Sciences

1998

Tomer Avidor-Reiss Biochemistry

Andrea Berger Psychology

Yoram Betser Electrical Engineering

Eyal Buks Physics

Steve Caplan Immunology

Doron Cohen Physics

Rafael De-Picciotto Physics

Alon Efrat Computer Sciences

Dan Fuchs Physics

Ruth Gaunt Psychology

Yuval Harari History

Idit Keidar Computer Sciences

45


46


Dror Orgad Physics

Yehuda Shalom Mathematics

Nili Wazana Bible

Itzchak Weismann History

Ehud Weiss Archaeology

Eduardo Zaborowski Physical Chemistry

1999

Avital Bareket-Samish Biology

Ehud Behar Physics

Yardena Bohbot-Raviv Physical Chemistry

Haim Diamant Physics

Miriam Dishon-Berkovits Psychology

Noam Eliaz Chemical Engineering

Yuval Feldman Law

Oleg Gang Physics

Eyal Ginio Islamic Studies

Salit Kark Biology

Leeor Kronik Electrical Engineering

Ran Spiegler Economics

Benjamin (Benny) Sudakov Mathematics

Daniella Talmor-Heller Islamic Studies

Guy Tomer Biochemistry

Amichay Vardi Chemistry

Sima Yaron Food Technology

2000

Yitzhak Benbaji Philosophy

Yair Cohen Chemistry

Leon Deouell Psychology

Alexander Groisman Physics

Tamar Juven-Gershon Biology

Gilmor Iris Keshet Biochemistry

Gila Moalem Taylor Biology

Ziad Mussliman Mathematics

Andrea Rotstein Classical Studies

Elad Schneidman Neurobiology

Galili Shahar History

Golan Shahar Psychology

Avital Shurki Chemistry

Aharon Solomon Agriculture

Vitali Tugarinov Physics

2001

Amiram Ariel Chemistry

Gonen Ashkenasy Chemistry

Guy Haim Bar-Oz Zooarchaeology

Hagit Benbaji Philosophy

Alex Braiman Biophysics

Alon Chen Biology

Lior Gepstein Medicine

Elinor Haddad-Saiegh Linguistics

Eran Halperin Computer Sciences

Daniel Harries Physical Chemistry

Gilad Hirschberger Psychology

Tal Kenet Biology

Uriel Levy Electrical Engineering

47


Chaim Noy Psychology

Ronit Satchi-Fainaro Biology

Herve Seligmann Zoology

Daniel Johannes Stoekl Comparative Religion

Uzi Vishne Mathematics

2002

Aharon Blank Chemistry

Hagai Shmuel Eisenberg Physics

Alexander Fantalkin Archaeology

Yariv Kafri Physics

Michael Karayanni Law

Vladlen Koltun Computer Sciences

Yaakov (Koby) Levy Chemistry

Irit Maor Physics

Adia Mendelson-Maoz Literature & Philosophy

Ishay Rosen-Zvi Philosophy

Boris Rybtchinski Chemistry

Guy Shakhar Biology

Roded Sharan Computer Sciences

Dahlia Sharon Neurobiology

Rafi Shikler Electrical Engineering

Tsachy Weissman Electrical Engineering

Tzachi Zamir Philosophy

Boaz Zissu Archaeology

2003

Omer Angel Mathematics

Shirli Bar-David Zoology

Tal Carmon Physics

Cyrille Joseph Cohen Biotechnology

Adi Erlich Archaeology

Mark Gandelman Chemistry

Karni Ginzburg Social Work

Shahal Ilani Physics

Yosef Jabareen Geography

Kinneret Keren Biophysics

Yonatan Loewenstein Neuroscience

Amos Morris-Reich Jewish Studies

Roee Ozeri Physics

Alon Rosen Computer Sciences

Oren Tal Archaeology

Vardit Tokatly Language & Literature

Lior Wolf Computer Sciences

Gitai Yahel Ecology

2004

Samer Banna Electrical Engineering

Smadar Ben-Tabou de Leon Physics

Julia Chuzhoy Computer Sciences

Oren Cohen Physics

Yacov (Koby) Crammer Computer Sciences

Micha Drukker Genetics

Nirit Dudovitch Physics

Ariel Gordon Electrical Engineering

Dorit Kerret Environmental Studies

Anna Kventsel Language & Literature

48


Ruth Mayo Psychology

Julia Rubanovich Language & Literature

Michael Segal Bible

Ester Segal Chemical Engineering

David Sprinzak Physics

Daniel Strasser Physics

Iris Visoly- Fisher Chemistry

Sharon Zuckerman Archaeology

2005

David Abookasis Electrical Engineering

Sheba Bergman Chemistry

Alberto Bilenca Electrical Engineering

Barak Dayan Physics

Micha Fridman Chemistry

Inna Gaisler-Salomon Psychology

Khalid Ghanayim Law

Amir Globerson Brain Science

Oded Hod Chemistry

Nadav Katz Physics

Alon Keinan Computer Sciences

Uzi Leibner Archaeology

Shahar Lifshitz Law

Roy Luria Psychology

Shai Ronen Chemistry

Orly Rubinsten Psychology

Anelia Somekh-Baruch Electrical Engineering

Amos Tanay Computer Sciences

2006

Eran Almagor Classical Studies

Guy Bartal Physics

Roi Cohen Kadosh Neuropsychology

Orr Dunkelman Computer Sciences

Ofer Fainaru Medicine

Ran Friedman Biochemistry

Badi Hasisi Sociology

Roi Alfred Holzman Marine Biology

Beena Kalisky Physics

Gad Kimmel Computer Sciences

Erez Levanon Medicine

Noam Levin Geography

Ariel Munitz Pharmacology

Ophir Münz-Manor Hebrew Literature

Yair Shokef (Srebo) Physics

Eran Tromer Computer Sciences

Assaf Yasur-Landau Archaeology

2007

Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder Education

Roey Jacob Amir Chemistry

Elizabeta Amir (Golan) Chemistry

Lilac Amirav Physical Chemistry

Benny Applebaum Computer Sciences

Avner (Avi) Fleischer Chemistry

Roi Gazit Immunology

Liat Goldfarb Psychology

49


Yohai Hakak Anthropology

Emma Maayan Fanar Art History

Dvora Namdar Archaeology

Orit Peleg Barkat Archaeology

Adi Salomon Chemistry

Ilia (Eli) Sloutskin Physics

Elly Teman Anthropology

Neta Wexler Sal-Man Biochemistry

Avinoam Zadok Engineering

2008

Oded Abt Asian Studies

Yael Artzy-Randrup Zoology

Jonathan Belmaker Ecology

Yuval Birnboim Astrophysics

Liraz Chai Chemistry

Alexander Fantalkin Archaeology

Eyal Feigenbaum Electrical Engineering

Inbal Goshen Psychobiology

Yehoshua Granat Hebrew Literature

Orr Karrassin Environmental Law

Tally Kritzman Law

Yaron Lipman Mathematics

Noam Mizrahi Bible

Izhar Neder Physics

Asya Rolls Neurobiology

Tal Schwartz Physics

Eran Stark Neurobiology

Yaniv Ziv Neurobiology

2009

Alexey Amunts Biochemistry

Omri Barak Neurobiology

Amir Fink Archaeology

Ophira Gamliel Indian Philosophy

Dmitry Gourevitch Mathematics

Shlomit Greenberg Cognitive Science

Vered Halamish Psychology

Nadav Kashtan Molecular Biology

Netanel Hanan Lindner Physics

Naphtali S. Meshel Bible

Yana Nec Mathematics

Ariel Procaccia Computer Sciences

Guy Ron Physics

Shmuel M. Rubinstein Physics

Inon Scharf Zoology

Gal Sheppes Psychology

Ron Shimelmitz Archaeology

Tzahi Weiss Jewish Philosophy and Thought

2010

Yael Abadi-Reiss Archaeology

Avraham Aizenbud Mathematics

Michael Assaf Physics

Galit Aviman Japanese Studies

Olena Bagno Political Science

Haim Belinson Neurobiology

50


Nissim Cohen Public Policy

Chen Davidovich Structural Biology

Shai Dothan Law

Orit Gazit International Relations

Pavel Ginzburg Electrical Engineering

Alexander Gumennik Physics

Alon Herschhorn Medicine

Ayelet Lesman Biomedical Engineering

Guy Polsky Medicine

Neta Regev-Rudzki Biochemistry

Nir Sapir Ecology

Tomer Shechner Psychology

2011

Amitai Abramovitch Psychology

Ayala Arad Economics

Amir Ariel (withdrew) Physics

Emanuele Dalla Torre Physics

Merav Dolev Physics

Michael Ebstein Islamic Studies

Ayelet Even-Ezra History

Ofer Firstenberg (withdrew) Physics

Alex Hayat (withdrew) Electrical Engineering

Amir Ingber Electrical Engineering

Boaz Keren-Zur (withdrew) Physics

Shachar Klaiman Chemistry

Ofir Levy Ecology

Nimrod Marom Archaeology

Or Meir Computer Sciences

Khitam Muhsen Epidemiology

Danny Neftin Mathematics

Mical Raz History

Ram Rivlin Law

Yoav Sagi Physics

Schraga Schwartz Biology

Adi Stern Biology

Hadas Velan Psycholinguistics

Roy Ziblat Biochemistry

2012

Ori Bar-Nur (withdrew) Genetics

Danny Ben-Zvi Systems Biology

Jonathan Berant Computer Sciences

Gal Binyamini Mathematics

Guy Cohen Chemical Physics

Yaniv Fox History

Danny Horesh Psychology

Michal Isaacson Geography

Salomon Israel Psychology

Ori Katz Physics

Ahmad Masarwa Chemistry

Liav Orgad Law

Uri Roll Biology

Benyamin Rosental Immunology

Jonathan Rubin History

Efrat Sheffer Ecology

51


Omri Tal Philosophy of Biology

Itay Tirosh Computational Biology

Moran Yassour Computational Biology

Reuven Yeshurun Archaeology

Yaara Yeshurun Neurobiology

Yakov (Koby) Yosef (withdrew) Islamic History

2013

Oded Berger-Tal Behavioural Ecology

David (Dudu) Burstein Life Sciences

Ronit Bustin-Drory Information Theory

Shoham Choshen-Hillel Psychology

Itamar Harel Developmental Biology

Yonit Hochberg Particle Physics

Leon Jacobowitz-Efron History

Ido Kaminer Physics

Rabie Khamisy Archaeology

Uri Livneh Neurobiology

Katy Margulis-Goshen Chemistry

Reshef Meir Computer Sciences

Bilha Moor Art History & Islamic Studies

Svetlana Natkovich Hebrew Literature

Anat Perry Psychology

Talya Sadeh Psychology

Adi Sheinfeld Electrical Engineering

Noam Shemesh (withdrew) Chemistry & MRI

Orr Spiegel Ecology

Ella Striem-Amit Neurobiology

Omri Weisman Psychology

Judith Weiss Jewish Thought

2014

Shahar Alon Neuroscience

Ido Barth Physics

Uri Ben-David Biology

Nir Bitansky Computer Sciences

Uri Davidovich Archaeology

Tali Dekel Electrical Engineering

Dmitry Faifman Mathematics

Michael Gilead Psychology

David Golan Statistics

Or Hasson Literature

Eyal Kalanthroff Neuropsychology

Sheera Lerman-Zohar Psychology

Ronit Levine-Schnur Law

Lyle Lustigman Linguistics

Firas Mawase Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience

Elad Noor (withdrew) Systems Biology

Yakir Paz Talmud and Classical Studies

Hannah Pollin-Galay Holocaust Studies

Doron Puder Mathematics

Noga Ron-Zewi Computer Sciences

Ori Rottenstreich Computer Networks

Hadas Soifer Physics

Michal Weitman (withdrew) Chemistry

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